Prashanth Gunasekaran Grew up in a family of creatives from Malaysia, moved to
Hamilton, NZ at 16, and pursued Drama at school and Theatre Studies at University.
With more than 10 years in the theatre scene as an emerging actor and director and
nine years of screen production experience from production management to
direction, Prashanth has accumulated his experience by working with a production
company in Auckland (Media Network Corp Film Studios) and by working
independently. Prashanth has Co-Directed two feature films, directed a series of
short films, line-produced 3 international feature films, and coordinated a series of
international features. Stranded Pearl is his 2nd film which had a national release in
September 2024. His main passion lies in the field of direction and production.